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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Installing VMware Server 1.0 - Part I

VMware server is sure to be a huge boost for the virtualization industry. I was really Jones'n to install it this morning when I saw that they had release it... But I was at work and I use VMware Workstation pretty heavily and from past experience, I'm pretty certain that both cannot co-exist on the same PC.

So, I waited till I got home and made my first attempt on my laptop. Here's the nifty splash screen:

Now, I got a little further than that, but not as far as I would have liked. The install on XP is truly very simple. It is just as easy as ANY other windows app. But there is one thing to consider. One is that they expect that you are installing it on a server OS...

<Side Thought>:
They "officially" only support it on a server platform, but I could not find anything in their license saying that you cannot run it on a non-server platform. OK, that made me think... Just what is a server platform? In the windows world, the lines are very clear. XP or 2000Pro are not. 2003 Server or 2000 Server are. How about Linux? I suppose anything can be considered a server in that world? I wonder if it is supported on LinSpire? Anyway...
</Side Thought>

While server does use a regular "windows app" to manage itself. It can also rely on IIS (Not sure what it does on Linux, prolly Apache?). That is where this evenings adventures ended. I ran the "custom" setup instead of the "complete" or "typical" just because I like to see what I may be missing out on... and here it is:

Without IIS installed, you'd miss out on a web-based way to manage it. So, just so I can see it all, I stopped the install and will install IIS before proceeding. I'll get it going again after I install IIS on my laptop. Check back soon!

Posted By: Jim on Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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3 Comments:

  • I've read another article on how to install VMWare server on XP:

    - install IIS on XP
    - stop the default website (XP only allows one website)
    - Install VMWare server.

    Everything should run fine.

    By Anonymous, at July 18, 2006 7:43 AM  

  • Did you get it installed? I got the trial download of Workstation, it's murder trying to get the distros going without the tools installed. I was going to give up when i found a distro of suse 10.1 or something, with the tools pre installed and i downloaded that, it got going really well right away and i even managed to configure the DSL using Yast without having to use any of those murderous dos like commands.

    By Anonymous, at August 27, 2006 10:21 AM  

  • the webinterface is quite useless if you run the "vmware server" as a "vmware workstation".
    it installs an own gui "interface". with this gui you can access local and remote machines. just play around, vmware server will install without an iis btw.
    i didn´t want to run an iis on an xp client anyway.

    By Anonymous, at September 24, 2006 11:43 AM  

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